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name: "Teruo Yoshida"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/teruo-yoshida"
fi1m_id: "teruo-yoshida"
imdb_id: "nm0948939"
tmdb_id: 142405
wikidata_id: "Q11414126"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 March 1936"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T14:28:48.439087+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Teruo Yoshida

## Identity

Teruo Yoshida

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/teruo-yoshida
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** teruo-yoshida
- **IMDb ID:** nm0948939
- **TMDB ID:** 142405
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11414126
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11414126, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0948939/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/142405

Actor. Born 23 March 1936 in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 March 1936, Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- **Also known as:** 吉田輝雄
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11414126, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0948939/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/142405

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*An Autumn Afternoon*](https://film.one/film/an-autumn-afternoon.md) (86)

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## Biography

Teruo Yoshida (吉田輝雄) is a Japanese actor and singer. Born on 23 March 1936 in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, he graduated from Ritsumeikan University before entering the film industry.

He began his career at New Toho in 1959 as part of a group of young leading men known as the 'Handsome Towers'. After the studio's closure he moved to Shochiku, where he appeared in *An Autumn Afternoon* (1962) as Yutaka Miura, and later to Toei. He became a regular in director Teruo Ishii's films, including *Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell* (1968) and *Horrors of Malformed Men* (1969).

Yoshida has also worked extensively in television and made a return as a singer in 2002.

*Sources: ja.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *An Autumn Afternoon* (1962), Fi1m 86, as Yutaka Miura — [page](https://film.one/film/an-autumn-afternoon.md)

## Complete filmography (67)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Agito: Superpower War* (2026), as Tanaka
- *Shogun's Ninja* (2025), Actor
- *Burai-Heiya* (1995), as Ryu
- *Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 6 - The Woman's Grudge Spirit Boat* (1971), Actor
- *Fear of Sex* (1970), Actor
- *Killer's Hit List* (1970), Actor
- *Horrors of Malformed Men* (1969), as Hirosuke Hitomi / Genzaburô Komoda
- *Memoir of Japanese Assassinations* (1969), as Kurushima Tsuneki
- *Kanto Woman Fortitude* (1969), Actor
- *Love and Crime* (1969), as Murase
- *Yakuza Law* (1969), Actor
- *Inferno of Torture* (1969), as Horihide
- *Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love* (1969), as Yoshioka
- *Sex and Life* (1969), Actor
- *Orgies of Edo* (1969), as Gentatsu​
- *Blue in Isezaki* (1968), as Takemura
- *Shogun's Joy of Torture* (1968), Actor
- *Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell* (1968), as Sugisaka
- *Hot Springs Geisha* (1968), Actor
- *Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy* (1968), as Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
- *Once and For All Pt.２* (1968), as Joji
- *Army Intelligence* (1968), as Ichiro Kakinuma
- *Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy* (1967), Actor
- *Lover's Duet* (1967), as Ichirô Seki
- *Once and For All* (1967), Actor
- *Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido* (1967), Actor
- *Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country* (1966), Actor
- *Secret Agent 101* (1966), Actor
- *Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love* (1966), as Kenji Goda
- *Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South* (1966), Actor
- *My Lover* (1964), as Tsuneo Oda
- *Nagisa o kakeru onna* (1964), Actor
- *Melody of Crime* (1964), Actor
- *Dislikes* (1964), Actor
- *Destroyer Yukikaze* (1964), Actor
- *The Night We Danced* (1963), Actor
- *A Million Girls* (1963), as Shinkichi Komiya
- *Tale of Scarlet Love* (1963), Actor
- *Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō* (1963), Actor
- *Dokuritsu bijin-tai* (1963), as Uno
- *恋と出世に強くなれ！* (1963), as 宇佐美強
- *Rush to Our Sweetheart* (1963), Actor
- *Twin Sisters of Kyoto* (1963), as Ryusuke Mizuki
- *Sakiko-san chotto* (1963), as 南条京太郎
- *Naite waratta hanayome* (1962), Actor
- *Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai* (1962), Actor
- *An Autumn Afternoon* (1962), as Yutaka Miura — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/an-autumn-afternoon.md)
- *Zoku aizen katsura* (1962), Actor
- *Tōkyō sanosa musume* (1962), Actor
- *Kyūjin ryokō* (1962), Actor
- *Akitsu Hot Springs* (1962), as News Reporter
- *Kiriko no unmei* (1962), Actor
- *Flower in a Storm* (1962), Actor
- *Otoko no Uta* (1962), Actor
- *This Year's Love* (1962), as Masao Yamada
- *Mama o uchi ga moeteru no* (1961), Actor
- *Fire Line* (1961), as Shin'ichi
- *I'm a Mountain Man in the City* (1961), Actor
- *Sexy Line* (1961), as Hiroshi Yoshioka
- *This Is a Man's World* (1960), as Takeshi Yoshida
- *Cave Queens* (1960), as Eiji
- *Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu* (1960), as Ryuji Hirooka
- *Kenjū to bakusō* (1960), as Koji
- *Yellow Line* (1960), as Toshio Mayama
- *Women of Whirlpool Island* (1960), as Nobuhiko Ôgami
- *Female Thief and the Bomb* (1960), as Takashi Chiba
- *Kingorō no kaigun taishô* (1959), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Teruo Yoshida](https://film.one/media/person/3908251/gallery-a25d6ba857c6.jpg) Teruo Yoshida — Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Seventy-Years-of-Shochiku-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![『秋刀魚の味』（1962年）の撮影現場。小津安二郎、吉田輝雄。](https://film.one/media/person/3908251/gallery-0e790d8933a7.jpg) 『秋刀魚の味』（1962年）の撮影現場。小津安二郎、吉田輝雄。 — キネマ旬報社, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Kinema-Junpo-1962-November-late-3.jpg/1280px-Kinema-Junpo-1962-November-late-3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year 1960: Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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